Recent comments by Sasazuka:

Yeah, I suppose the FLOWERS OF EVIL manga deserves to be mentioned. Maybe one day it will get a proper anime adaptation where the “character designs” aren’t just live-action actors wearing anime-style wigs.

It’s a shame that the list, even in Japanese, doesn’t let us see what would have otherwise come in at number 30 if they had excluded from the list creepy rotoscoped shows that are basically just live-action with After Effects filters.

Sasaki shows up eventually, in volume 6 of the manga, but I doubt they’ll get to her before season 2. There’s an arc in volume 4, terminating at the beginning of volume 5, that would seem to me to be an obvious place to end the first cour (season).

Actually, Kyon’s design is fairly faithful to the YUKI-CHAN manga, where he’s drawn with a far less cynical face compared to the traditional MELANCHOLY version, being a far less cynical character in this universe. It’s also because the YUKI-CHAN manga is drawn by Puyo, who already took a lot of liberties with the original Noizi Ito designs from the light novels in the HARUHI-CHAN manga, also drawn by Puyo, and he (?) doubles-down on the character design changes in YUKI-CHAN.